Greenpeace a charity?
OPINION: Should Greenpeace be stripped of their charitable status? Farmers say yes.
Dairy Womens Network is teaming up with industry training organisation, AgITO to open up further education possibilities for dairying women.
Canterbury milk powder manufacturer, Synlait Milk is launching an innovative new milk powder designed to assist people with sleep disorders.
THE UK'S largest fresh milk supplier, Robert Wiseman Dairies, looks likely to be bought by Germany's Theo Muller Group.
FONTERRA HAS just commissioned its second dairy farm in China and begun work on a third farm. The new farm is performing ahead of expectations, says the man in charge of the co-op's overseas farming ventures, Peter Moore.
GOVERNMENT LEGISLATION forcing Fonterra farmers to further subsidise increasingly foreign-owned competitors would be a debilitating blow to all New Zealand.
THE GOVERNMENT’S proposed changes to dairy industry regulations are plain wrong. They are a kick in the guts for Fonterra’s 10,500 hardworking farmers.
FONTERRA’S RECENT decision to cut local milk prices was welcomed by various consumer groups and others – including many self-serving politicians – all around New Zealand.
THE OPERATOR OF New Zealand's first independent product development spray dryer says interest is high among dairy industry players.
FOUR WEST Coast students have won university scholarships from Westland Milk Products.
MUCH OF my work in recent months has been on strategic reviews. These assignments involve business health checks to benchmark performance against best practice for key areas such as feed strategies, people management, budgeting and reporting. They take me into privileged territory as I compare the standards being achieved by farming operations against what I know is possible. The benefit is a business plan that is clear about new opportunity and identifies factors that risk holding the business back.
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SHED SAFETY improvements to artificial breeding (AB) facilities on farm have a direct effect on farm productivity and profitability. By reducing injuries productivity is up, idle time reduced, the cost of replacement labour eliminated, and medical treatment and rehabilitation expenses avoided.
Andrew Hoggard leads a busy life as Federated Farmers Manawatu/Rangitikei provincial president. He is also the national vice president of the Feds dairy section, manages a big dairy farm and has a young family. How does he do all this?
MAIZE SILAGE harvest will start in a few weeks. It is a busy and stressful time for contractors and a little forward planning will help make their job easier. Key things to consider are booking in your contractor, bunker or stack preparation and ordering silage making supplies.
AS THE long, hot days of summer roll through, it's even more important to keep checking the levels in effluent ponds, says DairyNZ. Let them get too full and when the weather turns and the autumn rains set in, overfull effluent ponds can cause all sorts of problems.
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